Concrete Molding by Carl

***as taps plays in the background*** A sad day for mankind.....another fellow man has fallen into the abyss.....

((Preset 7 is nice!!))

Also number 3 and 6 are like quilting squares~ Carl has a sensitive side to his tough macho image~

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until Carl starts giving out smoochies and huggles

He makes great filters! And yes he is tough and rugged.

So Carl what do you have working next?

Carl my buddy!

I'm so sad, I generated a whole set of textures from this filter (which is a lot more awesome then the presets hint at) and accidentally deleted my presets Since I don't have enough stuff made up yet I'm gonna have to regenerate a whole new batch. Here's one from the original set:



SO awesome!

But anyhow, I just thought I'd swing in and ask if you might be interested in updating this filter (make a new version- this one is pretty good as is).

Some things I think it could really benefit from:

1) A bit finer details on the diffuse. Maybe a little bit sharper of b/w noise and less of the odd looking yellow stuff.

2) Some sort of hue control: I'd love to be able to add some color by means other than the light environment.

3) Sharpen up the details on the normal, it's a wee bit too smooth. Just a little bit though, this texture looks pretty awesome fairly clean.

Don't think I'm sounding bossy, this is all just stuff I'd love to see, no pressure at all. I think you've got a possible HU on your hands though!

Oh and if you pretty fix up caste concrete and make some lone bullet holes I'll weep with joy!

Till next time homesnap!

Haha you're the man Carl!

That's fantastic! If you really lookin' for nitpicks, I'd suggest you softened the fade to black near the center and added a similar dark/light pattern overlay you did for this http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2259.html. In my opinion, that would make this great looking metal bullet hole even better.

And NP about the EULA, I'm cool with you keeping the filter till EULA is suitable. If they end up taking too long though I'd love to contact you privately and see what terms you want to arrange. I just want to use the filters for the game, I wouldn't be selling anything so that avoids the whole controversial stuff.

Can't thank ya enough man!

Also: Give this http://www.filterforge.com/filters/3647.html snippet a whirl, see if it makes things look more realistic. I've used real ambient occlusion in modeling and it makes an amazing difference in realism.

ok it's 4

Thanks jffe, it really was just hit random and these came out so for KG there is far greater control for the versions he is interested in

HOT DOG! That looks awesome Carl! I can't wait to get started doing some big render jobs with this! With the extra control, I think I'm going to actually use this for both teams styles! Originally I was going to use the concrete molding for blue team and Mortex, another very nice filter (http://www.filterforge.com/filters/1715.html) for the red team. But now I'm thinking that I can get the differentiation in styles and colors that I need while still keeping the visual style similar.

Have you already submitted the filter Carl? I hope you got some awesome new presets, this has success written all over it! I can't wait till Monday when I can give it a whirl! I'll post some pics when I have them in-engine!

Surprised it didn't show up with the " Stan " that made it through, hopefully in this afternoons recents

Just an update for KG [ as no one else seem to be using it LOL ] as this is a very old filter, added colour control, got rid of blemish, tightened up bit

I was tempted to do that, but in the update rules it specifies you can't drasticly change the existing presets - the default is boring, maybe I'll just be bad and changes them

No it's great now I can say KG made me do it

Carl dead?

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Crapadilla wrote: Removed?

Yes, the people voted, and KG Special has the setting in the description to make concrete molding

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Crapadilla wrote: dead

LOL no just disillusioned

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StevieJ wrote: doing some housecleaning

broom is going through


Thanks for the interest